Company Name / address details

MERSEN BOOSTEC
ZAE Ceram’Innov Pyrénées
65460 Bazet
France

Contact

Phone

+33 562 334 500

Fax

+33 562 334 505

E-Mail

boostec@mersen.com

Homepage

www.mersen.com

Ownership

Mersen Group 95% and Airbus Defence & Space 5%

Management

Jérôme Lavenac

Company profile

Over the years, MERSEN BOOSTEC has developed a unique expertise in the manufacture of very large and complex SiC parts or assemblies, possibly coated with SiC CVD. After having developed its leadership in space or terrestrial SiC optics, MERSEN BOOSTEC has successfully diversified into the fields of laser processing, equipment for semiconductor industry and chemical industry.

Production programm

Materials*

CVD SiC
Sintered silicon carbide

User industries**

accelerometers
armour
automotive, aviation, space industry
brazing
chemical industry
coating technology
electronics and sensors
heat treatment
kiln furniture
laser technology
marine and railway
measuring and testing industry
mechanical and chemical process engineering
metrology
navy
non-ferrous metallurgy
nuclear industry
OEM
optics
R&D (universities, institutes, corporate)
scientific instrumentation
semiconductor processing equipment
Space and astronomy
technical ceramics
vacuum technology

Production plants (key equipment)***

3D measuring
5-axis green machining
assembling
bonding
CIP
cleaning station
CMM and laser tracker measuring
coating
debinding
diamond grinding
finishing
green machining
grinding
hard machining
isostatic pressing
lapping
mechanical testing
milling
non-destructive inspecting
polishing
powder processing
sintering

Product development Partnerships

customers

yes

institutes

yes

user industries

yes

multidisciplinary

yes

Project funding

public

yes

industry

yes

Market Leadership

Full-SiC space telescopes, laser galvo scanning mirrors, SiC modules for continuous flow reactors, very large highly stable structures

Special Know How

Assistance to customers for the design of their SiC parts or assemblies, manufacturing expertise in very large (up to Ø 3.5m) and complex parts and/or assemblies made of sintered SiC, space qualification